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duced below it ; antennae of male almost simple ; tibiae with the 

 spurs moderate ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hindwing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Nhochbostis diplogeamma, n. sp. 



<? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with fuscous ; palpi pale 

 ochreous below; pectus and legs ochreous and orange, the legs 

 with some brown ; abdomen orange dorsally suffused with brown. 

 Forewing red-brown suffused with fuscous ; a double-curved black 

 antemedial line ; the reniform pale rufous with brown centre and 

 black outline emitting a spur towards base on median nervure, and 

 situated on a diffused medial black line angled at lower angle of 

 cell ; a double sinuous black postmedial line strongly angled out- 

 wards below costa and inwards below vein 2, traces of a line beyond 

 it angled outwards at veins 6 and 4 ; a pale minutely waved subter- 

 minal line; a fine black terminal line. Hindwing orange with slight 

 diffused streaks of black scales and discal point ; a diffused curved 

 fuscous subterminal line ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia fuscous. 

 Under side of forewing with the basal half, a curved postmedial line 

 and subterminal series of spots orange. 



Hab. Transvaal (Boss). Exp. 32 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus METACHEOSTIS. 



Type. 



Metachrostis, ^iihn. Yerz. ^. 204: (1818) ... velox. 



Zalaca, Wlk. xxxiv. 1202 (1865) anticalis. 



Hindwing orange or with orange markings. 



a. Forewing with nearly straight pale brownish postmedial 



band orthozona. 



b. Forewing without nearly straight pale postmedial band. 



a^ Forewing with pale postmedial area madanda. 



h^. Forewing without pale postmedial area. 



a*. Forewing with nearly straight medial line, the area beyond it 

 darker. 

 a3. Forewing with the postmedial line angled below 



costa then incurved accincta. 



63. Forewing with the postmedial line excurved 



from costa to vein 4, then erect cryptochrysea. 



c3. Forewing with the postmedial line sinuous . . contempta. 

 ii^ Forewing with the medial line waved, the area beyond it not darker. 



